Sri Kodakalla (they/them) is a Desi American multimedia creative and arts organizer based in Charlottesville, VA. Their multimodal creative work combines mixed-media visual art, writing, research, and community-centered practice rooted in identity reclamation, sustained griefs, and our relationships to memory and legacy. Of late, these compositions have evoked dream-like narratives depicting facets of their immigration experience, cultural homecoming, and familial oral stories. Their work has been exhibited nationally in several solo and group exhibitions, most notably at Second Street Gallery, New City Arts’ Welcome Gallery, and 934 Gallery.

Sri is a current graduate candidate in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, studying relationships of health equity for the intersection of queer and migrant communities. They have worked in several Central Virginia arts organizations (Second Street Gallery, McGuffey Art Center, and The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative) and are focused on serving the creative and equitable growth of BIPOC artists and youth. They co-direct Bad Milk Press and produce MALA LECHE, a free radical art & writing publication featuring the work of women, non-binary, trans*, and genderqueer creatives in Central Virginia.